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For the British rock band, please see The Renegades.
1) A hardcore band on Lost Time Records.
2) Renegades were a garage rock band from Atlanta, GA. They featured three members who would go on to form the Black Lips.
3) Renegades is also a Trinidad & Tobago steel pan calypso band, which is sometimes referred to as Renegades Steel Orchestra.
4) Renegades is the name of the side-project from two members of the band Feeder, featuring guitarist Grant Nicholas and bassist Taka Hirose, as well as Karl Brazil from Ben's Brother. (The music embedded on this page is not...
René Jacobs (Born: October 30, 1946, Ghent) is a Belgian (Flemish) musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conductor of Baroque and early Classical opera. His recordings have won numerous awards, including the Grammy Award for "Best Opera", Gramophone 's "Record of the Year", and numerous European awards.
Jacobs began his musical career as a boy chorister at the Cathedral of Ghent. Later he studied classical philology at the University of Ghent while continuing to sing in Brussels and in The Hague.
The Kuijken brothers, Gustav Leonhardt and Alfred Deller...
Irene Cara (born on March 18, 1962 in New York City, New York) is an American singer, Academy Award-winning songwriter and actress of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing Flashdance...What a Feeling. She is best known for her recordings of the songs Fame and Flashdance... What a Feeling. She also starred in the 1980 film version of Fame.
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Her father Gaspar (died in 1994) is an Afro-Puerto Rican. Her mother Louise is of French and Cuban descent. She has 2 sisters and 2...
